The Irish standard., 1887-02-05
Church Notes.

Church Notes.
Father Fowler, of Usage, Iowa, is
about to erect 5000 church.
The recent fair in aid Of the church
at Haddjngton, Pa, realized $4,000.
St. Mary's church. Grand Rapids,
Mich. is to be placed i'll charge of'Jes-
ujt Fathers.
Clergvrnen, says the Catholic Citizen,
who fall from grace very rarely surprise
those who knew them.
The Catholics of St. Louis speud
about $3.50 900 yearly for the support Of
parOchial schools.
At East st. Louis, ILL.,. number Of
lrishmen haye formed an organization
Of the knights of St. Patrick.
Most Rev. DIR. Logue, bishop OF
Raphoe, has been elected coadjutof
bishop of Armagh by large majority
In Denver, COL, an association has
been formed with the idea OF erecting
hall for Catholic entertainments and
uses.
a tract of sixty acres of land in the
vicinity of South Chicago has been do
mated IT, the German Catholics for a
cemetery.
Two new parishes are in coDtempla-
ton in the Peoria diocese. One IN.
Galesbnrg, Knox county, and another
in Rock Island.
Mgr. Rampolla Del Tindaro, papal
nuncio at Madrid, has been designated
to succeed Cardinal ,jacobini as Papal
Secretary Of State.
Rev. Fathers naman and Van der
Erderl, the famous Jesuit missionaries
of St. Lonis, have departed on the, new
years missionary tour.
The history Of Mount St. Mary's Col
lege, Emmittsburgh, which played such
An important part 'il the CaJho'c i'rs>'
tory .,f: the United States, lis shortly to
appear.
Bishop LaFlacle of Three Rivers,
has decided TO carry On 81 mission dur
inc the winter among the Canadian
lY1islher shanties on the Ottawa and
Galinea rivers.
There are four fine libraries connected
with St. Joseph's church, St. Louis.
one for the clergy, another for the So
dalists. {, third for the parishioners, anu
the fourth for converts.
Bishops Kane and Ireland have pre-
sented their petition to the Pope, and
expect to receive without delay Pom
tAfical Brief approving Of the erection OF
a Catholic University in America.
Albert NodleS of Keokuk. one OF the
brightest young men OF Iowa, and the
only student from that State in the
American College at Rome, was Ton
sured January Is, by Mgr. LENT.
The death of Cardinal FranZelin
leaves but one Jesuit Cardinal at pres
ent-Cartlinal Manzella, All italian by
birth but IL naturaiiZed citizen OF the
United States He received the re;
hat last June. 4.
Congress has appropriated S11 900 for
Catholic church, school-house and
priests residence at Fort Leavenworth,
Kansas. There are generally Two hum
red Catholic soldiers at this post. and
the legislation in this case is just,
though tardY.
A colored student named Loring AT
gustus Jones is studying for the priest
hood at st. Vincent's College, Pennsyl
yania. He is not the only one, for there
is another by name OF William Reid, of
Pittsburg, in whom the sanity Arch
Abbot Wimmer has taken great inter-
est, and who is now far advanced in his
clerical studies.
A consistory will be held on March Z,
when Monsignor AIaselle and the Nun
clos at Vienna, Madrid, and Paris will
be made Cardinals. The Pope has &C,
cepted Cardinal Jacobini's resignation
as Papal Secretary, and as mark of es-
TEEN has invited HIM to continue to
live in the Papal residence. The Car
dinal will probably be appointed Pre-
feet Of the Apostolic Palaces
Upon inquiry at the convent OF the
Sisters Of Notre Dame, on North Capt.
tai street, we have been Informed that
Sister Agnes has not BEEN appointed
superior of the order in America, but
superior OF the Mother House, in Cir
cinnati. Sister Julia, formerly superior
of the convent in Philadelphia, has